Product Description

Imagine a 72” widescreen HDTV that can fit just about anywhere. The SAMSUNG HL72A650 is super slim and lightweight, making it the ideal TV for almost any room in your home. Plus, 1080p resolution and Cinema Smooth™ Light Engine deliver amazing picture quality with 3D ready technology and a wider range of colors that are simply breathtaking to watch.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31258 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: HL72A650
• Dimensions: 46.80" h x 65.80" w x 19.30" l, 108.10 pounds
• Display size: 72

Features

• 1080p HD Resolution
• 1 Tuner PIP
• 3 HDMI Inputs, HDMI-CEC
• 3D Gaming Ready

Customer Reviews

Samsung almost nailed this one.
I purchased the HL72A650 after spending 3 weeks with a 73735 Mitsubishi DLP. I purchased the Mits from Best Buy and like all Mits DLPs the color was way off out of the box. I paid Best Buy to do an ISF calibration on the 73735. I quizzed them and they assured me before hand it would be a full calibration. The Best Buy calibration was $250 and so I agreed. The calibration Best Buy did helped immensely, but in fact, despite the claims, Best Buy does not really do a full true calibration. Of course I did not know that at the time. They set brightness, contrast, and sharpness levels, then the set the grayscale but they did not calibrate the primary and secondary colors to spec. The Mits needs the Full Monty calibration it is a mess with out doing that. From what I understand they can look spectacular afterward it a real pro does the full deal and does it right. Mine calibrated by Best Buy not so much. That left me in the position where I would have had to pay an independent to calibrate the set all over again to do the job right it so I returned the 73735 to Best Buy.

I then bought the Samsung through Amazon and that experience was excellent with the white glove delivery process. The Sammy has very good color out of the box and it is also quite sharp out of the box. It is strong in the areas where the Mitsubishi is weak. Unfortunately the Samsung uses the Texas Instrument Dark Chip 3. The Mits uses the Dark Chip 4 which has better blacks and significantly better shadow detail resulting in much better overall contrast.

The use of the Dark Chip 3 is not really the whole problem by itself. The problem is that at some point Samsung decided to remove the iris from their lamp DLPs light engines. An irus is used on DLPs to deepen blacks on the fly as the screen changes. Perhaps this deletion was done to make the LED DLPs more competitive against the lamp set. The net result is a TV that is very good in most every way except it has poor contrast and black levels for a TV at this price point. Excellent black levels and contrast are typically a given for DLPs.

I am keeping the Samsung but I am more than a bit disappointed with it. I also own a 3 year old HP 65" DLP which has an iris and mkes much better blacks. If you can get by with a 67" set, the Samsung LED DLP, HL67A750 will give you the Samsung color accuracy and great blacks with top notch shadow detail. If you need the 72" or larger size, get one of the Mitsubishis but be prepared to spend $300 plus on an ISF calibrator who really knows what he is doing. The Dark Chip 4 has 40 percent better contrast than the Dark Chip 3 so even the lesser priced Mitsubishi DLPs which also lack an iris make deep, almost plasma like blacks.

If the blacks were at the level of current Mitsubihis DLPs or even the Sammy bulb sets of a few years ago that included an iris, the HL72A650 with its accurate color and excellent resolution would deserve 5 stars plus. As it is, I can only give it 3 stars. If you mostly watch movies, than 3 stars might be a stretch.

Best TV for the price
I just purchased the Samsung HL-72A650. What an amazing picture for the size of this TV. With the cost of a LCD or Plazma at 65 inches, it was a pleasent surprise that I can get a quality TV for under $2500 with an additional 7 inches. If you are not mounting a TV on the wall and need a large TV do to the size of the room, I would definetly go with the Samsung HL-72A650. Samsung HL72A650 72-Inch 1080p Slim DLP HDTV

Incredible
I just upgraded from a 1 year old 65 lamp projection HD set from Hitachi (which was great for a lamp projection) and was blown away! HD DVDs and Blu-Ray takes on a whole new world with this set - and was a STEAL for the price! Takes up much less space and along with the stand (I purchased this also) fits perfect with tons of space for the players and more.